January 16, 2009 6:00 PM
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NASA's Commercial Cargo Contracts Protested by PlanetSpace Inc
(MoneyWatch) We had written in the past that NASA had awarded contracts for commercial launch services to keep the International Space Station (ISS) supplied. There had also been reports that one of the losers to Orbital and SpaceX, PlanetSpace Inc, would protest one of the contract awards. According to FloridaToday.com PlanetSpace has protested both awards. MSNBC has the press release from PlanetSpace's lawyers here. They are claiming that their contract proposal represented a better value to NASA then ones eventually awarded.
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